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Imagery
Use of metaphor, simile, and other figures of speech to create a visual picture to stimulate the imagination and the senses, often helping the reader to experience a situation more vividly; this includes the use of symbols and picture-words, and descriptive language, such as the use of adjectives and adverbs. The aim is to clarify or explain.
Images help readers experience a situation more vividly because they turn abstract language into concrete ‘visuals’. Imagery is the major descriptive tool for both poets and writers of prose. Imagism, a movement in Anglo-American poetry in the early 20th century, had a profound impact on modern and contemporary poetry, since it rejected many traditional poetic devices in favour of images. Ezra Pound's ‘In a Station of the Metro’ (1913) is regarded as an example of a poem of ‘pure image’.
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alliteration
ambiguity
anachronism
analogy
anecdote
anthropomorphism
anticlimax
antithesis
antonym
assonance
bathos
black humour
climax
comic relief
conceit
connotation
couplet
device
double entendre
emotive language
euphemism
figure of speech
grotesque (literature)
half-rhyme
hyperbole
imagery
irony
lampoon
literary criticism
metaphor
metonymy
onomatopoeia
oxymoron
parody
pastiche
personification
pun
rhetoric
rhyme
rhythm (poetry)
satire
simile (language)
symbol (general)
synecdoche
synonymy
synthesis (literature)
tautology
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